Younger women lean toward the new wave of British R&B and pop — Olivia Dean, RAYE, Sabrina Carpenter — while younger men hold UK drill (Central Cee, Dave) and grime. Regional difference is real: northern England keeps a stronger Indie rock attachment, and Sam Fender's Newcastle base is part of that story. Class has long shaped British music consumption and still does — the gap between what you'd hear in a London pub versus a Lancashire one is part of the chart's texture.